[Ansteorra] period kings and gambling

[Tim McDaniel]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Pat Mullins <paedrics at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Jews were the main moneylenders for much of our time.

I believe that that varied a lot.  The Jews were expelled from England
under that stupid swordjock Richard the Lion-Hearted, and dim memory
suggests that they didn't come back in a big way until Cromwell.  I
think the major lenders to the Crown were the Templars and then
Italians, and I dimly recall that there were major shockwaves when
Edward III defaulted to the Genoese.

Danielis de Lindo
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com